”I’ll Take It! Build My House Here!"

That’s a direct quite from one of my friends when we found this view of a westbound Santa Fe manifest at Cable, California. We were ... (more)

Santa Fe All the Way

There’s no mistaking whose train is climbing the Tehachapi grade near Cable, California. No less than five cabooses punctuate a manifest consisting of mostly... (more)

The hot North Bay 9 UPS train charges hard up towards the Cable Crossovers as it will run around another BNSF train.

Three big GE motors, and one on the rear, haul a Stockton, CA to Chicago (Cicero), IL Z6 through Cable as it almost reaches the summit of Tehachapi Pass.

UP's Brooklyn, OR to Los Angeles (LATC), CA intermodal train is almost done making the hard climb up Tehachapi Pass as snakes through the curves of Cable with a newer Tier IV SD70ACe leading.

A southbound West Colton bound manifest lead by UP 6626 works upgrade at North Cable in the early morning.

After tripping the Hi-wide detector at MP 364.8 near Monolith due to blowing straps, this unit cottonseed train is underway again passing Cable Crossover in the late afternoon.

On a late summer morning in the higher Tehachapi Mountains, a south bound BNSF stack train works slowly up grade, passing through tunnels 14, 15, 16 and 17, between Marcel and Cable.

BNSF 3745 south works upgrade at Cable with a general freight in tow.

Five locomotives, four models, two builders, one railroad ... An eastbound Santa Fe freight is just six miles from the summit of its crossing of the Tehachapi Mountains as it pops out of one of th... (more)

A north bound BNSF manifest, carrying mostly empties, slowly slithers its way down through the curves of Cable and toward the first bottle neck section of track, between the switches of north Cabl... (more)

Southbound tonnage works upgrade at North Cable with UP 2587 leading the long West Colton bound freight.

BNSF 731 in warbonnet paint brings up the rear of a southbound mixed manifest at Cable on a cool spring afternoon in the Tehachapi Mountains.

BNSF's Modesto to Barstow freight works through Cable crossover as it nears Tehachapi.

A loaded northbound BNSF grain train eases down Tehachapi Pass at North Cable with KCSM power on the rear.